The 2023 MTV Video Music Awards will close with a salute to hip-hop’s 50th anniversary. Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Doug E. Fresh, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and LL Cool J will join previously ...

As the latest of several recent performances and shows honoring hip-hop’s 50-year anniversary in 2023, MTV’s Video Music Awards welcomed many of the genre’s finest figures to the stage on Tuesday ...

One of hip-hop's founding fathers will reminisce about his career, from Bronx block parties to the world stage, in new book ...

With Westword’s Music Showcase going down this weekend, let’s take a quick look at what the last five hip-hop winners have been up to the last five years: The Pirate Signal (Yonnas and DJ A-What) who ...

J Noa, the Dominican teen rap dynamo, drew expressions of wonder and joy from a quartet of rap’s founders with an intricate, sometimes lightning-paced freestyle that stretches on and on. In video, ...